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Many have asked about what a "classic" is and what is classified as a classic or not: a Classic novel is one in which that is note-worthy, well-known and exemplary. There are many ways to classify one, one by the book, one by the author... it just depends on what you are looking at. They are widely recognized as a classic as they are timeless, taught through the years and are essentials in that median.

Here are a few lists in which you can scroll through and see if you can pull a few books from!

Required Reading for High School
- I know it is for high schoolers, but most and a lot of these books are the top classified classic novels.

Popular Classics
- More of a wider genre of classics

Stages
Please pick from a stage, you can edit as you read more!

Stage One
Read 1-5 classic books

Stage Two
Read 6-10 classic books

Stage Three
Read 11-15 classic books

Stage Four
Read 16- 20 classic books

Stage Five
Read 21-25 classic books

Stage Six
Read 26-30 classic books

Stage Seven
Read 30 books and more.

Rules
If you are/were within 50 pages of completion on January 1st, 2019, the books is all game!
You can use classics for other challenges! So yes - double up on books!

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Duration
January 1st, 2020 through January 1st, 2021

I am in! Going for stage three this year. Hoping to get in one classic a month!

1. Franny and Zooey
2. To Kill a Mockingbird

So excited for this challenge! I really need to catch up on my classics. I'll go for stage two for now.

1. Memoirs of a Geisha
2. Aeschylus II: The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides, Proteus
3. The Theban Plays: Antigone, King Oidipous and Oidipous at Colonus
4. Medea and Other Plays
5. A Little Princess
6. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
7. Nature
8. Young Goodman Brown
9. The Minister's Black Veil
10. Ligeia
11. Six Tragedies

I’m going to start with stage one...I have a baby on the way in March. Not sure how many classics I’ll be able to get in this year lol

I’m in. Stage 1!!

Lauren wrote: "I’m going to start with stage one...I have a baby on the way in March. Not sure how many classics I’ll be able to get in this year lol"

How exciting! Congratulations! <3

Thank you Rachel! :)

Stage 1 for a start
Rachell, would you be able to give a link to that list you had made from the art of being a wallflower? If i remember you even added a few books at the end. I thought it made for a great list for classics

Sylvie wrote: "Stage 1 for a start
Rachell, would you be able to give a link to that list you had made from the art of being a wallflower? If i remember you even added a few books at the end. I thought it made fo..."


Hi Sylvie, Yes! Those are actually the two lists from the Hemingway challenge and the Perks challenge. They are part of the never-ending challenges and they are here :)

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Joining the challenge a bit late but aiming for Stage 4, trying to read at least two classics a month.

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I am late as well, but I still want to try it :) Last year I had 13 classics (still have to update my post from back then though lol), so this time I want to try more than 15

Stage Four
Read 16- 20 classic books

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Never too late to join!

I just discovered your group and I want to participate in this challenge, too. By the way, you have created a very active, fun and wonderful group. I am happy to discover it, albeit late.

I'd like to start with the Stage 2 (6-10 classics). I've already read 4 of them:

1. Oedipus the King : /book/show/1...
2. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz : /book/show/4...
3. Le Petit Prince : /book/show/1...
4. Memories of My Melancholy Whores : /book/show/8...

1. Antony and Cleopatra
2. Heartbreak House
3. Les Misérables
4. The Wonders of the Invisible World Being an Account of the Tryals of Several Witches Lately Executed in New-England, to which is added A Farther Account of the Tryals of the New-England Witches
5. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
6. The Enormous Room
7. Oedipus Rex